John Haydon of the Washington Times with an article on DC keeper Milos Kocic who has played decently this season. Ironically he was not on the traveling squad for this weekends big match in LA against Chivas.

The Montreal Impact has fired coach John Limniatis after getting off to a terrible start this season going 0 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses in 4 games. They also lost in their first game of the Canadian Championship tournament this week. (Although I will point out that my Minnesota Thunder has played 5 games, and only has 1 more point.)

Clint Dempsey was named Player Of The Month of April at Fulham. (thanks to BQ for the heads up)

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Marcus Hahnemann will not get a new contract from Reading after his expires next month, so he is now free to roam the market place. He had one hell of a run at Reading helping them gain promotion 3 years ago, but they have failed this year to climb back to the top, the manager has resigned, and its expected that you will see a full makeover of the squad for next year.

Out two lads playing in the Primera came up big for there teams in the playoffs last night - Jose Francisco Torres & Pachuca rolled to a 1-3 road win with our man JFT netting the winner. And recently unearthed Marco Vidal went the full 90 as Indios Juarez won 1-0 in their home leg against the reigning champs Toluca.

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Have I told you all how much I love watching those Gophers from Pachuca! Chaco Jimenez is awesome, and I hear Maradona has called him in for the next round of World Cup qualifiers! Great move Diego!

Olympic goal medal winning sprinter Usain Bolt has been at Manchester United training grounds giving the players tips on increasing their speed!

It could be all over before the Liverpeople even get to take the field again.

Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky has returned to practice with Arsenal after being out 16 months with a thigh muscle injury.

Race for the Premier League title: (2 games left to play)86 Manchester United - Next: Sat May 16 v Arsenal80 Liverpool - Next: Sun May 17 at West Brom

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Odds are very good that when this weekend is over we will have champions in England, Italy and Spain.

Both Poland and Bosnia have been fined and further warned by FIFA for fan disruption at the previous World Cup qualifiers. They could lose points or be kicked out of the qualifying tournament if it happens again. It's interesting how FIFA takes this more serious than racism.

Nigel Reed of the CBC writes that no matter what a referee might do, right or wrong, there needs to be more respect shown. Hear! Hear! Or is that Here! Here! I've never been able to figure that one out.

ENDERS

Manchester United and England centerback Rio Ferdinand has his own online "magazine" called #5. Check it out now. This first issue has interviews with Cristiano Ronaldo, 50 Cent, Duffy & Mickey Rourke.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Cohen is not getting destroyed. Maybe in Liverpool but most American Soccer fans are with him and back his right to free speech. Sponsors will come back once the hype being fueled by Christopher Harris and EPL Talk does down.